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To: robert b furman who wrote (40279)	9/18/2008 10:22:17 PM
From: BWAC	1 Recommendation Respond to of 95531

I can't say it any better. You're right on the mark. -------------------------------------------------- "I don't view it that way. These guys have been well healed elite cheaters. They get comfy with pension fund managers who for a fee loan them the stock if ever needed and hardly ever done. Abuse has been rampant. How many times have you seen a stock get pushed down all day and a closing after hours trade gets done at 25 cents higher than the close? Payola with in a comfy group of big holders of stock. Its been an assault on the small investor ever since Spitzer took on the funds for favorable after hours trading. This is BS. They need to get it broke off in the panicing butt just like the little guy has sufferd for the last 8 years. Oppression of price by systematic computer algorythym trading. Corrupt and after they go broke -= they should go to jail. Just look at the reality of the cheating - billions of wasted capital. Sandisk gets offered a 93% premium and their are multiple people interested in also bidding. This corruption has been sponsored by inept "protectors of the little guy" =Cox @ the SEC. The hedgies need to panic at the cover window and if they had the balls and smarts to short at the top they'll get out with a smaller profit - just like we do when we hold too long. You hold too long when you are greedy or think you have a corner on the market - because you are cheating and undiscovered."

To: robert b furman who wrote (40279)	9/18/2008 10:34:32 PM
From: Return to Sender	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 95531

Bob, they should enforce the rules. Banning ALL SHORT SELLING is wrong. I have sold shares short before though not for some time. Was I cheating? If I had shorted today, and thank God I did not, would I be forced to cover tomorrow under the ban? The SEC is not interested enough in enforcing the rules. They want to manipulate the market. That's just as bad as the manipulating from the naked short selling. And it will cause another bubble. They won't arrest the hedge fund managers that have been illegally naked short selling. They won't punish those who were responsible for allowing money to be lent to people who could not truly afford one of your vehicles for sale much less a house. They will make it easier for stocks to rise without any real fundamental reason for the rise. They will simply create another bubble. Just don't forget to take profits before they change the rules again because all bubbles end badly. RtS